About Me
Hey there! I’m Chris Schwab, a British-American entrepreneur based in Yokohama, Japan and I am absolutely thrilled to have you come visit the site. Please read on to learn a little about me and what you can expect to gain from this site.
I’m a dual citizen, originally from the U.K and U.S, but I’m currently based in Japan with my wife. My passion lies in helping aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners build balanced businesses that can be run remotely from anywhere in the world through my Local Business MBA programme. With my experience running multiple small businesses, including a nationwide remote cleaning business, and my Virtual Assistant agency, I’m committed to sharing the strategies and insights that have allowed me to achieve my goals.
In my personal life outside of business I am a practitioner of handbalancing, yoga, the martial arts, and a firm believer in the philosophy of balance, which guides both my personal and business life.
On my website, you can expect to gain access to the following
The Local Business MBA: My flagship MBA-styled programme walking you through the 4 stages of starting your own local business – Starting, Scaling, Systemizing, and Delegating.
New Valuable Content: Each week, I’ll share fresh content, including templates, free videos and in-depth guides, designed to empower you in your business journey.
Community Updates: Get the latest happenings inside our dedicated community. Discover top threads, great questions, and valuable suggestions from fellow members.
Direct Access to Me: You can connect with me via email, by subscribing to my newsletter, in our dedicated community, or as a student inside the Local Business MBA.
Local Business “Principle of Success”: Similar to legendary investor Ray Dalio’s daily principles, I’ll share insights and principles that can guide you to success in your local business.
If you are interested in a brief history of my business ventures you can do so by reading on.
Think Maids
A nationwide remote cleaning business headquartered in Washington, D.C. Think Maids began in July 2016 as a small, premium residential cleaning business and has rapidly grown into a dynamic, multi-state cleaning service (currently in 5 states). We’re evolving quickly to keep up with demand, expand our service area, and add complementary services that customers frequently request.
To date, Think Maids has been featured in:
-A book by a 4x bestselling author on million dollar side hustles (100 Side Hustles: Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job)
-Episode 87 of Side Hustle School, a popular entrepreneurial podcast. The episode downloaded over 40,000 times in 48 hours.
-Featured on The Penny Hoarder, the largest personal finance website with over 17 million monthly readers.
-Featured in an extensive case study on building a real life, local million dollar business.
-In TIME Magazine Online.
Inova Local
My Virtual Assistant agency empowering local business owners by offering trained office managers and virtual assistants so they can finally offload their day-to-day work.
We regularly handle the following tasks for local business owners:
-Book Customers over the phone, website, thumbtack or industry-specific marketing channels.
-Schedule teams, coordinate with them before, during and after the job.
-Handle emails, customer issues, and customer follow-up.
-Daily administrative tasks that come up .
To date we:
-Fully manage several 7-figure businesses and dozens of 6-figure businesses for the owners, to the point where the owners have become largely absentee, trusting us with key decisions.
-Are working with large national franchises and their franchisees across North America.
-Handle the daily operations for dozens of independent local businesses, with a focus on cleaning companies.
-Regularly close 5 & 6-figure deals for our clients. Recently, we closed a $92,000 cleaning deal for a client.
You can visit us at inovalocal.com and schedule a call with me if you are interested in working with us. Our main goal is to save you time and stress, and we do this very well.
The Local Business MBA
An innovative blueprint for building and automating local businesses. We have helped more than 100 students and nearly 1,000 entrepreneurs successfully launch their own local businesses all around the world – so far, in more than a dozen countries.
Students work through 4 dedicated stages throughout the programme:
Start – you’ll be guided in the first stage from zero to a fully launched local business with teams and customers.
Scale – next, we’ll walk you through scaling past important growth points, such as $10,000/mo and $50,000/mo in revenue so you don’t stay stuck in the same place.
Systemize – in the third stage we’ll help you implement a comprehensive system for each area of your business so that you’re running an efficient machine.
Delegate – finally, once you’ve grown and systemized your business you will start building out an office team who can manage the daily admin work for you.
Optional: Go Remote – I’ll show you exactly how to turn your local business into a fully remote operation that you can run from across the world, just like I do.
About My Personal Life
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